斯諾登檔案爆美監控菲律賓簡訊
The Philippines is among the countries being secretly monitored by a telecommunications spying program of the US NationAl Security Agency (NSA), as revealed by whistleblower and fugitive Edward Snowden.
據《菲律賓星報》5月20日報道，美國“稜鏡門”揭祕者愛德華•斯諾登披露的檔案顯示，稱菲律賓也在美國安局祕密監控的國家之列。Online publication The Intercept, a platform releasing Snowden's leaks, alleged in a post on Tuesday (Manila time) that NSA's cutting-edge surveillance program MYSTIC collects "metadata" and content from mobile networks in the Caribbean, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines and another unnamed country.
刊登斯諾登洩密檔案的線上網站The Intercept於馬尼拉時間20日發文稱，NSA代號為“神祕”（MYSTIC）的監控專案蒐集加勒比地區、墨西哥、肯亞、菲律賓和另一個國家行動網路的“元資料”。"All told, the NSA is using MYSTIC to gather personal data on mobile calls placed in countries with a combined population of more than 250 million people," The Intercept writers Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras said in the report.
文章稱，NSA用“神祕”專案蒐集的個人行動電話資料涉及不同國家的2.5億多人。該文作者之一格倫•格林沃爾德曾依據斯諾登提供的材料發表多篇文章揭露美國監視專案。
Metadata are information revealing message or call's time stamp, source and destination--information collected by MYSTIC that may be authorized by the host country and even by the telecommunications firms. The program also offers "near real-time, complete access to the additional target country's GSM networks," according to the document leaked by Snowden.
所謂元資料，是指電話或者簡訊的時間、來源和接收者等資訊。美國情報界曾在2013年的預算方案提出出資成立“神祕”專案，稱該專案有能力獲取上述國家的全面元資料資訊，還可近乎實時監控一些國家的全球移動通訊系統（GSM）網路。Another classified document, provided by Snowden, provides a NSA Special Source Operations' description of MYSTIC as a "program for embedded collection systems overtly installed on target networks predominantly for collection and processing of wireless/mobile communications networks."
斯諾登提供的另一份檔案稱，“神祕”專案可公開在目標網路安裝嵌入式採集系統，蒐集和處理無線電話/手機通訊網路的資訊，公開的說法是為電信公司提供合法商業服務。There is no indication whether MYSTIC also intercepts phone calls and voice data in the Philippines, but it does pull text messaging data.
尚不知曉“神祕”專案是否還攔截了菲律賓人的電話和語音資料，但一份檔案顯示，蒐集簡訊資料是確鑿的。The Intercept said it asked NSA to comment, but it only said it does not collect foreign intelligence in an arbitrary and unconstrained way as it follows protocols to protect people's privacy. Philippine laws prohibit wire tapping and related violations not authorized by all parties concerned.
對於The Intercept的採訪，美國國家安全域性只表示，該機構沒有以任意和無約束的方式蒐集國外情報，並恪守保護個人隱私。巴哈馬，墨西哥、肯亞和菲律賓方面均未迴應。菲律賓法律禁止在未經當事各方授權的情況下執行竊聽行為。
